People are still bad at gauging their own interview performance

Re:People are still bad at gauging their own interview perfo... by henrik_w on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:02PM (#12458220)

Very true. Some well known companies, like Google, still have more applicants than jobs, and so they need to filter people out. Most companies have the opposite problem - they need to attract people. This shift means that the interview process has to be re-thought.

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Re:People are still bad at gauging their own interview perfo... by potatolicious on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:21PM (#12458340)

> "still have more applicants than jobs"

This is true for a lot of companies - but there's only a surplus of labor if the applicants are qualified.

For a company to be able to be frivolous with their process, they'd need to have more qualified applicants than jobs, and I think even for many name-brand BigCorps, this isn't the case.

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Re:People are still bad at gauging their own interview perfo... by vonmoltke on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:59PM (#12458579)

I suspect most name-brand BigCos (including Google and friends) are pretty bad at first-pass decisions about what applicants are qualified. Has anybody stopped to consider that the root cause of their stream of Terri le interview candidates is a terrible filtering process for deciding who gets interviewed?

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